Today I put on a very old jacket. I haven't worn it for ages but I found it in my wardrobe and decided to wear it, as kind of comfort shield I suppose.
Anyway, when I reached into a pocket I found a flint tool, one I must have picked up on a walk, years ago now, and forgotten.
It was quite hard to photograph with my phone and I don't have the equipment to show the detail properly, but along the top edge it looks as though tiny pieces, a couple of dozen or more, have been flaked off to bring it to a point. So I think it is a human artifact and is a kind of awl, a piercing tool. I've been looking at it day and keep picking it up and feeling its weight and shape.
Interestingly it seems to be bistable; that it is there are just two orientations you can lie it down and it will rest as you placed it, which makes it even more intriguing.
Stone Tool
Today I put on a very old jacket. I haven't worn it for ages but I found it in my wardrobe and decided to wear it, as kind of comfort shield I suppose.
Anyway, when I reached into a pocket I found a flint tool, one I must have picked up on a walk, years ago now, and forgotten.
It was quite hard to photograph with my phone and I don't have the equipment to show the detail properly, but along the top edge it looks as though tiny pieces, a couple of dozen or more, have been flaked off to bring it to a point. So I think it is a human artifact and is a kind of awl, a piercing tool. I've been looking at it day and keep picking it up and feeling its weight and shape.
Interestingly it seems to be bistable; that it is there are just two orientations you can lie it down and it will rest as you placed it, which makes it even more intriguing.